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Monthly Archives: June 2014

The dismantling of my old life continues. On Saturday, the chooks went to their new home. My sister-in-law has graciously agreed to adopt my feathered friends. I just had to catch them and shove them into boxes for the trip … that was fun and games. Mad chooks squawking and tangling their claw in my […]

Making my own pastry last week was a revelation: you just chuck some flour, butter and water in a food processor for a few seconds and voila! Thank you Jamie Oliver’s Save With Jamie for the suggestion. Let me rewind: I made my poorly youngest chicken noodle soup and was wondering what to do with […]

It’s been an angry week for me. Well, the first few days were pretty fab, but it went steeply downhill from Wednesday onwards. I am trying to swallow the hate and focus on the love, but geez it’s freaking hard sometimes. Yesterday Husband asked me about minding the kids for a long weekend so he […]

Celebs never fail to serve up the scandals, week in, week out. This time around it’s a DUI, a supermodel booty call, and a slew of TMI selfies. What is it with celebs oversharing on social media? They’re usually whingeing about wanting more privacy … Ah well, enjoy! Or tsk … whatever your poison … […]

The youngest has been sick for seven days now and I’m going slightly mad. I’m also running out of things to blog about because all I do is sit around the house watching crappy kids’ movies. OK, I’m exaggerating slightly: it was Husband who got stuck with carer duties on Saturday night, Sunday and Monday. […]

After six months of stay-at-home motherhood and a separation, House is leaving home again for the workplace. I signed a new employment contract yesterday. I’ll also be leaving my actual home (forever) in 5 weeks. We’re scheduled to settle the sale of the house on August 1 and I have no idea where I’ll go […]

There was a mini-revolt in the playground last Friday when my youngest daughter was off sick. Every Thursday night she and three of her friends go to skipping training in a nearby suburb, armed with fists full of money they’ve been given to buy skipping ropes for kids at their school. The youngest marched out […]

My visual entertainment swung between two extremes over the weekend: first The Wolf Of Wall Street, with Leonardo Di Caprio snorting cocaine out of a hooker’s butt crack, then Austenland, with Kerri Russell visiting a Jane Austen theme park in search of her real-life Mr Darcy. The Austenland viewing was prompted by inhaling the book, […]

It’s more than a little ironic that I’m blogging about food today. I went to the school fundraiser last night and whaled out on the bubbles. Even the thought of cooking makes me shudder, let alone eating the results. And in 30 short minutes my friend Alice will be picking me up for a pump […]

Geezy louisey yesterday was a cracker in the stress stakes. I sold my house, the youngest came down with a vomiting bug and I got the results of my diabetes test. I also waited – and waited – for a work contract to arrive in my in-box … more about that later … While […]